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Thermal Hydraulics
The division provides a forum for focused technical dialogue on thermal hydraulic technology in the nuclear industry. Specifically, this will include heat transfer and fluid mechanics involved in the utilization of nuclear energy. It is intended to attract the highest quality of theoretical and experimental work to ANS, including research on basic phenomena and application to nuclear system design.
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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
February 3–6, 2025
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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A more open future for nuclear research
A growing number of institutional, national, and funder mandates are requiring researchers to make their published work immediately publicly accessible, through either open repositories or open access (OA) publications. In addition, both private and public funders are developing policies, such as those from the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the European Commission, that ask researchers to make publicly available at the time of publication as much of their underlying data and other materials as possible. These, combined with movement in the scientific community toward embracing open science principles (seen, for example, in the dramatic rise of preprint servers like arXiv), demonstrate a need for a different kind of publishing outlet.
Noboru Kobayashi, Ryota Hirano, Youichi Enokida, Ichiro Yamamoto
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 44 | Number 2 | September 2003 | Pages 415-419
Technical Paper | Fusion Energy - Tritium and Safety and Environment | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A370
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The pressure dependence of separation factors of the columns for H2-HT mixture was measured for practical design of "cryogenic-wall" thermal diffusion columns for tritium handling system. Experiments were performed with 1,020 mm-height column with a 4.8 mm-outer-radius tube heated by hot-water and a 11.5 mm-inner-radius tube cooled by liquid nitrogen. The maximum total separation factor was 12.7 at 80 kPa for H2-HT separation. By using another column with 9.53 mm-outer-radius tube heated by hot-water and a 14.2 mm-inner-radius tube, the separation factor was 64.4 at 144 kPa, and the separation will be larger at higher pressure.Comparison of numerical calculations of axial and radial two-dimensional flow and concentration distribution with experimental data revealed that our code could predict the pressure dependence of separation factor of the columns well.
